Tennessee · Private foundation
Crittenden Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $270k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 37
- Grants FY2024
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $36,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 33
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $5.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Crittenden Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 37 | $270k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $270k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $260k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $240k | 9% |
| FY2020 | 33 | $240k | 15% |
| FY2019 | 33 | $150k | 12% |
| FY2018 | 31 | $170k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nashville Ballet | $280,800 | 7 | 1% |
| Chautauqua Institution | $105,400 | 5 | 0% |
| Judicial Watch Inc | $82,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Nashville Zoo Inc | $60,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Redemption Road Rescue Inc | $60,000 | 7 | 9% |
| Aura Home Women Vets | $52,500 | 2 | 51% |
| Customized Veterans Group | $50,500 | 2 | 12% |
| Trinity Hope Inc | $49,600 | 7 | 2% |
| Opera Memphis Inc | $46,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Citizen Journalism Foundation | $33,000 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($565k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Crittenden Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 34 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Memorial Foundation Inc · Hca Healthcare Foundation · The Frist Foundation · Pine Haven Foundation Trust Attn Kevin Crumbo · The Steven & Laurie Eskind Family Foundation · Vanderbilt University · The Annette & Irwin Eskind Family Foundation · The Blum Family Foundation · The Andrew Allen Charitable Foundation · Joe C Davis Foundation · Nashville Predators Foundation
How this is measured
About Crittenden Foundation
- How much does Crittenden Foundation give?
- Crittenden Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $270,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Crittenden Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (36%), Philanthropy (11%), Animals (9%).
- Who are Crittenden Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Nashville Ballet ($281k), Chautauqua Institution ($105k), Judicial Watch Inc ($83k).
- Does Crittenden Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Crittenden Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Crittenden Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc, Memorial Foundation Inc, Hca Healthcare Foundation.
- Where is Crittenden Foundation based?
- Crittenden Foundation is based in TN.
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